- What clothing should I bring with me? EVERY week you should bring your normal swimwear, a pair of goggles, a long-sleeved shirt, a pair of long trousers (or a skirt/kilt), and a thicker pullover or fleece. These items are needed for training and also for assessments. Don’t forget your towel too!
- Do I need to be a good swimmer? Well, it helps obviously, but it certainly isn’t essential. Graham (one of the trainers) dines out on the story of a fire-fighter who signed up for his Bronze Medallion (the standard lifesaving qualification) and had to admit that he was afraid of the water! A fireman afraid of water?! Well, it took 14 weeks, but he did actually pass. The tipping point was when the guy came back after 4 weeks and said he’d been able to take his own kids to the baths for the first time ever – because he knew he could DIVE!
- So, what is a Bronze Medallion? It is a little bronze coloured medallion that you will receive when you pass an assessment of your life support, water safety knowledge and rescue skills. There are higher awards too, but the Bronze Medallion has been the ‘standard’ for life saving for a VERY long time. Usually it takes a couple of terms to pass it, mainly because we don’t put you under any pressure to do so until we think you’ll pass.
- You mean there’s no pressure? There are places where you could do the BM intensively. There are classes run elsewhere that fit it into a term of 12 weeks. However, they usually spend longer each week, they may have a failure rate, and the people who pass may not be as confident and knowledgeable as our club members. Which is why a lot of our club members go on to the higher awards and, even, become teachers.
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